Black and white photograph showing Mrs Brown, wife of Dr Brown, the missionary doctor at the Uzuakoli Leper Colony, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. Mrs Brown sits with a Nigerian nurse next to six Nigerian infants sitting on a blanket. The caption to this image reads: "Mrs Brown, Nurse & "clean" babies, Leper Colony, Uzuakoli." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Health services Missionary work Hospitals Missions to leprosy patients Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1927/1937
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Uzuakoli medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
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